My three favorite demos from Boldpush AI Demo Day

On Tuesday, I promised a deeper take on Boldpush AI Demo Day. Here it is.

Quick recap: 39 companies demoed across 5 hours to a live audience of 1,500. I moderated alongside Julius Solaris and ended up introducing 19 demos myself, including the entire planning and operations block, the longest segment of the day, with seven demos back-to-back.

The five-minute format meant everyone had to show real use cases in a straightforward manner, rather than just talking about what their tool does.

Three demos in particular have stuck with me a week later.

Guavo — venue sourcing without the phone calls

Evan Felcher demoed Guavo by walking through a real example: finding a restaurant venue in New York City on a tight budget. Their AI submits the RFPs for you and consolidates all responses into a single comparison view.

I wish I’d seen this product when I hosted an event-pro meetup in New York last year and spent days calling restaurants and chasing RFP replies. I tried to DIY the process with Claude Code, and it was decent but not great. While it was able to find them and reach out, it was hard to understand where they were located, keep track of submitted proposals, and know who’d gotten back to me.

On Guavo, they make it easy to

If Guavo had existed then, I'd have saved a week. If you're planning a small to mid-size event this year, this is the first venue tool I'd put in front of you.

Expobooth.ai — booth design without the seven-day wait

Paul Urbinati at Expobooth.ai showed AI-generated 3D booth renders and floor plans built from a creative brief, then iterated live on the layout in seconds.

I was talking about this exact pain with my friend Rich Rodriguez a month or two ago. Today, the booth-design loop looks like this: send a creative brief to a designer, wait 7 to 14 days, get a draft back, send revisions, wait another week. Expobooth collapses that into one sitting, where the exhibitor iterates themselves.

Of course, this presents a potential challenge for traditional booth designers. But for exhibitors trying to get a concept approved by a CMO before the show floor sells out, the speed-to-mockup will make a real impact.

Planbrite — the producer workspace I wish existed five years ago

Xavier Bakker at Planbrite demoed turning a single event brief into a complete budget, timeline, vendor plan, and run of show in under five minutes. Their stat: producers lose 40 to 70 hours per event to spreadsheets.

Yesterday I built a Trade Show Prep GPT with Jessica Sibila at The Exhibitor Advocate that solves a slice of the same problem, converting raw show details into a master timeline. Planbrite is doing it across the whole producer workflow with native vendor and budget data baked in.

If you're a producer running more than two events a year, this is the demo I'd watch first when the BoldPush+ recording drops.

Honorable mentions

A few more from the day worth a look:

• Nowadays — same lane as Guavo on venue sourcing. Their AI handles outreach and negotiation in any language, then drops a clean apples-to-apples comparison on your desk.

• CueForge — turns an agenda into a usable show flow. The hours-to-minutes pitch is real for anyone who has ever cue-called a session.

• EventNation — strips private data out of a hotel contract, scans it, and exports a marked-up PDF in five minutes. Hotel contract review is one of those silent producer tax categories nobody talks about.

• Zenus AI — privacy-first sensors that measure attendee flow and sentiment, so you can finally answer the booth-ROI question with real data.

Where to find the recordings

BoldPush is releasing the full demo recordings to BoldPush+ members in a dedicated section of their platform. I've been a member for a few months, and the framework library and monthly briefings have been awesome. I’ll also be partnering more closely with Julius to create exclusive AI content available only through BoldPush.

That's the wrap on Demo Day. Out of the 39 companies, what would you most want to see a deeper review of? Hit reply and let me know, I'll cover the most-requested one in a future issue.

Till next time,
Noah Cheyer

Do More With Less Using AI

PS: Massive thank you to Julius Solaris and Dominique Gardner at Boldpush for having me. Three thousand registrants and 1,500 live attendees for a tech-deep webinar is unheard of in this industry.